Sciences
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Aquiring Science
Research
Your primary source of knowledge is through research - this takes both time and money and is a two step process. From the Science Menu, you can get a research rate - this is the speed at which you will accumulate books. The faster you choose to learn, the more expensive each book will be - thus, there is a tradeoff between speed and cost. Once you have accumulated books, you can designate them into any of the available science categories (also from the Science Menu) to gain various bonuses.
Learn Attacks
Through combat, you can simply steal knowledge from your enemies, using the Learn attack. This option has the advantages of weakening an opponent and speeding up the learning process.
Between these methods, provinces have a variety of methods to develop the knowledge required to grow and succeed in the long-term. As you accumulate more knowledge, it will take increasingly more books to achieve additional benefits. Your benefits are determined based on the square root of your Books Per Acre (BPA) in each category, modified by a multiplier depending on the science kind. Quadrupling your BPA will double your bonuses.
Science: The Reference
Alchemy
Alchemy is the art of changing lead to gold. Knowledge in this area will help you increase your daily tax revenues by creating more value out of the resources you have.
Tools
Creating better tools means more efficient workers. By developing this area of knowledge, you will be able to increase the efficiency of buildings throughout your land.
Housing
By improving the quality & efficiency of housing throughout your lands, you will be able increase the amount of people living throughout your nation. This provides you the opportunity to substantially increase the size of your province without adding more lands.
Food
By researching better food growth techniques, you can improve the quality of your crops and improve the yield from the farms across your lands. This allows to dedicate more lands to other, more fruitful ventures for your province.
Military
Learning better military tactics helps you find new ways to fight battles and improve your ability to capture enemy land resources. Study here, and your troops will capture more from their battles.
Crime & Deceit
Your thieves are training in criminal procedure by the state. Having state knowledge of crime is of great value in making your thieves more effective both in conducting insurgent operations as well as defending your own territories.
Channeling
Magic is a powerful force of the lands. By increasing your knowledge of the history of this art, you can improve your wizards' abilities to cast spells and the amount of potential damage done by successful castings. You also increase the amount of runes produced by your towers each day.
